... severity of their hardships can be observed in Solzhenitsyn's novel: "The narrator describes conditions in the camp detail by detail: the early start of the work day in the complete darkness and frost of a Siberian winter night, the cold of the prisoners' barracks, their starvation diet, and the brutality of the authorities."[13] The depth of degradation of the prisoners in the camp is startling. When Ivan Denisovich sees " ...a young fellow who ... Vietnam, a miscalculation which turned into a disaster and shocked national self-confidence."[18] In January Sakharov protested against the...

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